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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Carne Advovada Ala Heather

Heather,
over at Rocky Mountain Cooking, recently posted her recipe for Carne Advovada and it sounded too good to pass up,
especially since I’d found adaptable ingredients while freezer diving - check
out her site for the recipe she used.
According to Wikipedia “Adobada is generally pork marinated in a
"red" chilli sauce with vinegar and oregano, …” and after looking at
several recipes on-line this seemed to be accurate, but since Heather’s use of
green chile sauce is the part that appealed to me, I decided to stick with
hers.

Carne Advovada - Adapted from Rocky Mountain Cooking

Ingredients:

2 pounds
of pork loin, cut into cubes

3/8 cup
red chili powder (like Heather, I used Hatch)

½ tbs.
salt

2
cans Hatch hot, chopped green chilies – I used canned to save my last bag of
the good ones

3. In a
large bowl, add pork and chili/salt mixture and mix well with your hands until
all the pork is covered in the chili.

4. Cover
let sit overnight.

5. Add
everything to the Crockpot and cook on high for an hour, then reduce to low and
cook for 6-8 hours or until pork loin is very tender.

We
just rolled it in a flour tortilla and topped with some shredded lettuce and
sour cream and I thought it was delicious. The shredded meat came from the Chile Verde and the cubes are the pork loin.

Since
a big part of my dish was our homemade chile verde and Heather used green chile
sauce with pork, I suspect the two were somewhat different but I believe we did
use the same Hatch red chile powder which had to have made them taste very
similar. I think this dish basically
turned my green chile into red and I don’t know if it is classical Carne Advovada, but I loved
it this way - much better than my shots of it showed.

Next
time, I would not use the pork loin cubes but would make it as Heather did or
just add the right portion of the other ingredients to my Chile Verde - the canned hot chiles added plenty of heat. I think it would have been very good atop most any starch - potato, rice, pasta, chips, etc.

I'm dying to find that Green Chili Sauce in the freezer section like Heather bought. I made my own a couple weeks ago and it was delicious and now want to try the more convenient choice. I also want to try this recipe and soon